Some time ago I purchased a book on how to make food for my dog. I thought it might be helpful in that if I made the food, I'd know exactly what was in it.
The problem was that most of the recipes call for animal meats . . . lamb, salmon, etc. As a vegan myself, I don't currently purchase those things for myself. Heck, when I did eat meat those weren't things on my diet!
Anyway, there was a recipe for blueberry pancakes. It said their dogs loved this recipe and was something they were fed weekly (on Sundays). Since I had never fed Harley, my dog, this, I wanted the first time I tried it to be a weekday so I could take him to the vet, if necessary, if he got sick from them.
Today was the day. The recipe called for 2 large eggs. Since this is an animal product, I don't eat or keep them in my house. I substituted a half a banana (after making sure bananas were dog friendly) for the eggs and vegan yogurt for the greek yogurt.
The consistency seemed off so I added water (and more and more water!) to the batter. And then I started cooking them. After one of them had cooled enough, I put one in Harley's food bowl.
He sniffed it and then did a taste of it without actually eating it. He proceeded to eat around it until his food bowl was empty except for this pancake (some of his breakfast was still in the bowl).
Because all the ingredients are people friendly and because the book said this was a recipe the whole family ate from, I tasted another of the pancakes.
The taste reminded me of those sour ball candies you can get. It wasn't a pleasant taste and I'm not sure what brought that taste in . . . I don't remember buying sour ball candies and / or putting them into the batter. But that's definitely what they tasted like. So I completely understand Harley not caring for them.
Oh well, at least I made something from the book. :)
No comments:
Post a Comment